"It is clear that in mulling over harsh judgments, sinister predictions, and bad memories, we fashion our own sadness; in a certain sense, we savor it."

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“Thought is saying no, and it is to itself that thought says no.”

“Politeness is for people toward whom we feel indifferent, and moods, both good and bad, are for those we love.”

“Any kind of barbarism, once established, will last.”

“If religion is only human, and its form is man’s form, it follows that everything in religion is true.”

“Happiness is a reward that comes to those that have not looked for it.”

“Idleness is the mother of all vices, but also of all virtues.”

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"iven our inability over the past two decades to deal with an unbreakable chain of unemployment, debt, inflation and no real growth, we have drifted farther and farther out into a cold, unfriendly, con…"

— John Ralston Saul

Politics1947

#life

"I want to bring down civilization. It's really clear that civilization is killing the planet. I’m interested in living in a world that has more wild salmon every year than the year before. A world tha…"

— Derrick Jensen

Social Activism1956–2017

#family

"Today, in the era of the complete triumph of the spectacle, what can be reaped from the heritage of Debord? It is clear that the spectacle is language, the very communicativity or linguistic being of …"

— Giorgio Agamben

Literature1942

#philosophy

"It is seldom given to philosophers to enter into one another's enthusiasms, but they are sometimes allowed to share a disappointment. And could anything be more generally disappointing than the attitu…"

— Edgar A. Singer

Philosophy

#knowledge